Before I Wake Up (Fantasy)

In a world where dreams have the power to shape reality, Before I Wake Up follows Cora, a young woman who discovers that the boundaries between the waking world and the dream realm are not as solid as she once thought.

Cora has always struggled with her vivid dreams, often waking up from them feeling more real than the life she's left behind. Each night, she ventures into a world of shifting landscapes, strange creatures, and impossible scenarios - a world where the rules of time and space don't apply. But everything changes the night she dreams of a mysterious, shadowed figure who warns her of a terrible fate: the dream world is starting to leak into reality, and only she can stop it.

At first, Cora dismisses it as another bizarre dream, but the following day, things begin to happen - objects from her dreams start to appear in the real world, and people she's only seen in her sleep seem to know her name. As the line between dream and reality blurs, she finds herself pursued by enigmatic forces who want to control the power of her dreams for their own dark purposes. She learns that she is a Dreamweaver, one of the rare few born with the ability to manipulate the dream realm - and the world's fate depends on her ability to control this power before it consumes her.

Determined to understand her role, Cora embarks on a dangerous quest to uncover the origins of her dreams and the mysterious figure who has been haunting them. Along the way, she is joined by Lysander, a brooding dream wanderer who claims to know the truth about her powers, and Elara, a rogue dreamcaster who wants to harness Cora's abilities for her own ends. Together, they journey through the shifting landscapes of the dream world, encountering forgotten gods, ancient secrets, and dangerous creatures that threaten to break free into the waking world.

But the deeper Cora delves into the dream realm, the more she realizes that the true danger is not just the dreams themselves, but a malevolent force known as The Weaver - a creature of darkness who feeds on the dreams of others and seeks to rewrite reality itself. As the boundaries between the two worlds continue to unravel, Cora must confront her deepest fears, face the truth of her origins, and learn to control her powers before the dream world swallows her whole.